Of those, I know boys under the age of ten called Alexander, Andrew, Douglas, Patrick, Stuart and John, plus Alexander, John, Frederick and Nigel as middle names. They are hardly "names that no-one else will use" In fact, Alexander is one of the ten most popular boys names here in Scotland.

A lot of boys names are also surnames even the ones some people consider "proper". The only difference is the proper brigade decided that they were proper enough as opposed to the the improper names. This whole proper/improper thing must die. Elitist anyone?